Intel held a technology day this week to discuss the future of its 10nm designs and to call for a new way of defining process nodes. 10nm is shaping up to be a significant advance, but it may be a few years before every market segment shares in the improvements.

There hasn’t been a Venus lander since 1984. But NASA wasn’t willing to settle for that. They’ve made a materials science tour de force, resulting in new integrated circuits capable of withstanding the surface of Venus.

MIT researchers have developed a method for printing electronic inks neatly and reliably on the nanoscale, on rigid or flexible substrates. They expect it will be used in turn to develop transparent, sensor-rich panels, stickers, and packaging.

James Newman was tired of trying to intuitively understand how modern microprocessors work — so he built his own “megaprocessor,” a fully functional CPU with LEDs to show where and how the chip executes data.

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